Hunter Thompson, Kafka, and a commercial for Goodbooks International

Antfood, Buck, and String Theory created this fantastic faux-Hunter Thompson tribute to Kafka disguised as a commercial for Goodbooks International that donates all of its retail profit to Oxfam. (Thanks, Stacey Ransom!)

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fantastic animation – was that Mr. Depp voicing Hunter?
- robdobbs
  
  I’m gonna say no. Close but not quite.
  - http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt
    
    It would certainly make sense it is was Depp…..
http://germanwotd.com Amelia_G

Shit, that was funny.
http://www.appliedesoterics.com bfarn

I worked at Buck (on a different job, sadly) while they were in production on this project. A lot of love went into this job – a lot – and it really shows. Good work guys!
Hamm

That was one of the best ads I’ve ever seen. I’m going to buy a book now.
- http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt
  
  And if you can’t buy a book (that’d be me), there’s a plethora of books you can download for FREE! See the Gutenberg Project (tons there) and others.
jerwin

For the moment, the link is broken. You can see the film here.

I decided it was a mistake making tea with the bongwater.
synesthesia

holy crap, that is some fantastic animation.
FusionEnvy

Hurry! Let me buy that video ad in paperback, this mescaline is about to kick in!